Middle aged pleasures (4 Viewers)

[ann post]

after the summer we've had it can go and shite

The summer was great, theres no change in the climate*



*I live in one of the green dots.

 

[magicbastarder]

that's good news - the nitrates will be flushed out to sea more quickly.

 

[Space]

that's good news - the nitrates will be flushed out to sea more quickly.

Good for the kayakers too.

 

[Anthony]

Good for the kayakers too.

The Nitrates??

 

[seanc]

The summer was great, theres no change in the climate*

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*I live in one of the green dots.

What do the blue dots with numbers mean?

 

[Space]

The Nitrates??

No the kayakers getting flushed out to sea quicker.

 

[Anthony]

No the kayakers getting flushed out to sea quicker.

Yea I got that.

 

[ann post]

What do the blue dots with numbers mean?

https://www.epa.ie/publications/monitoring--assessment/freshwater--marine/hydrology-bulletin/hydrology-bulletin/EPA-Hydrology-Bulletin-July-2023.pdf

Just legend for other graphs in the report

 

[egg_]

A bunch of us objected to a group that wanted to turn these fields into an industrial solar farm

How come? It's not right by the lake or anything from the looks of the map

 

[therealjohnny]

How come? It's not right by the lake or anything from the looks of the map

Many reasons. The sheer scale of it was a big one.

 

[egg_]

Meath couple whose house was due to be demolished secure temporary reprieve

Property was built without planning permission more than 15 years ago

www.irishtimes.com

Was I telling ye about the planning thing across the road from us? There was a half-burned down house there for a few years, someone bought it and got planning to knock it and build a different house set back from the road

That was fair enough, nobody objected.

Then he half-knocked the house, and extended it into a bigger house instead, and in the process blocked up a stream that flows under the house which backed up field drains in every direction - there was even water flowing across the road, and a big flood outside the house itself. And then it turned out the extended house was split up into flats. So we all objected, and he applied for retention, and failed to follow up on questions the council had, so now the place has no planning permission

It was all made possible by the fact that he paid for everything in cash - normally this kind of planning thing is effectively enforced by the banks, who won't you let you draw down the mortgage without signoff from the council. And the reason he's paying for everything in cash? He's a criminal, as we found out when the place was raided by the guards and CAB. Lot of drama for a crossroads 6km from the nearest village

 

[egg_]

Many reasons. The sheer scale of it was a big one.

Was your objection successful? "It's too big" seems a bit hand-wavey for a local authority to take seriously

 

[therealjohnny]

Was your objection successful? "It's too big" seems a bit hand-wavey for a local authority to take seriously

yes it was

 

[pete]

Was your objection successful? "It's too big" seems a bit hand-wavey for a local authority to take seriously

Too big for our back yard.

 

[therealjohnny]

Too big for our back yard.

I said "this should be moved to a neighbourhood in Dublin" in my objection

 

[pete]

This country should be absolutely plastered in solar panels and wind farms. We were in wales a couple of weeks ago and the scale of the offshore wind infrastructure around Llandudno is just incredible.

 

[pete]

This country should be absolutely plastered in solar panels and wind farms. We were in wales a couple of weeks ago and the scale of the offshore wind infrastructure around Llandudno is just incredible.

Gwynt y Môr - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[seanc]

Was I telling ye about the planning thing across the road from us? There was a half-burned down house there for a few years, someone bought it and got planning to knock it and build a different house set back from the road

That was fair enough, nobody objected.

Then he half-knocked the house, and extended it into a bigger house instead, and in the process blocked up a stream that flows under the house which backed up field drains in every direction - there was even water flowing across the road, and a big flood outside the house itself. And then it turned out the extended house was split up into flats. So we all objected, and he applied for retention, and failed to follow up on questions the council had, so now the place has no planning permission

It was all made possible by the fact that he paid for everything in cash - normally this kind of planning thing is effectively enforced by the banks, who won't you let you draw down the mortgage without signoff from the council. And the reason he's paying for everything in cash? He's a criminal, as we found out when the place was raided by the guards and CAB. Lot of drama for a crossroads 6km from the nearest village

Good work detegg_tive.

 

[magicbastarder]

he cracked that case wide open.

 

[Deadmanposting]

This country should be absolutely plastered in solar panels and wind farms. We were in wales a couple of weeks ago and the scale of the offshore wind infrastructure around Llandudno is just incredible.

Was just over in Holy Island in Angelsey at the weekend and they're all yapping away in Welsh to each other. The language is everywhere.

We can learn a lot from them I reckon